WoRMS taxon details
original description
Bellan, G.; Picard, J. (1965). Contribution à l'étude des polychètes de la région de Tuléar (République Malgache). I. – <i>Ophelia peresi</i>, n. sp. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 90(2-3): 295-298. page(s): 296-297, figs. 1-2 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Boury-Esnault, N., G. Bellan, D. Bellan-Santini, C.F. Boudouresque, P.Chevaldonné, A. Dias, D. Faget, J.G. Harmelin, M. Harmelin-Vivien, C. Lejeusne, T. Pérez, J. Vacelet, M. Verlaque. (2023). The Station Marine d'Endoume, Marseille: 150 years of natural history. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5249(2): 213-252. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5249.2.3 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 page(s): 573 [details]
Paratype MNHN POLY TYPE 595, geounit Madagascar [details]
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Depth range 15-20 m. [details]
Distribution Indian Ocean: Grand Récif of Tuléar [= Toliara], Madagascar, Mozambique Channel. Known only from the type locality. [details]
Etymology "Nous dédions cette nouvelle espèce d'Ophelia au Professeur J. M. Pérès, qui a eu le mérite de promouvoir les recherches benthiques dans le sud-ouest de Madagascar en fondant la Station Marine de Tuléar" (Bellan & Picard, 1965: 295). [= "We dedicate this new species of Ophelia to Professor J. M. Pérès, who had the merit of promoting benthic research in the south-west of Madagascar by founding the Marine Station of Tuléar"; translation by the Editor]. [details]
Habitat Organogenic fine sand composed mainly by grinded coral fragments and poor in organic matter, at subtidal depths (15-20 m). [details]
Type locality Coralligenous sand bank in front of the Grand Récif of Tuléar [= Toliara], Madagascar, Mozambique Channel, Indian Ocean (gazetteer estimate -23.39°, 43.62°), 15-20 m. [details]
Type material Species described with base on seven specimens, two of which stated to be slightly damaged. Whereabouts of holotype not known, one paratype deposited in the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN POLY TYPE 595; see Solís-Weiss et al., 2004: S10). [details]
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